When the Zune can play music via WiFi over my Airport Express let me know.
Notice Jobs didn't say WiFi wasn't the future, he just said the song sharing was not the future.
I don't think "the iTunes people" really care. But they don't have a choice if they want to sell music. It's all about what the record labels want, not Apple.
Either you're a Sony marketing bot, or this entire post is satire. Multiplayer gaming with a birds eye view from the PSP? Right. Like that's never been done before (Nintendo). Using your PSP as a remote control? How? Why? Who cares? What's wrong with a normal remote control? My media collection streamed to my PSP? Why would I want to stream it to a tiny stream when I'm going to be streaming it in my house with a big TV? PS3 DVR? How is that supposed to work? I haven't seen Cable card or a coax connector on the PS3. Normally a DVR does kinda need one of those. PS3 as a portable WiFi hotspot? Gee that's great, I'll haul around a $600 router with me. VOIP? Because the N-Gage didn't really well. Video calls? Yeah, that's a huge market there. A GPS? Right, because I'm going to take my PSP hiking with me with it's 10 hour battery life. Do I need to buy a solar panel too? 7000 PS1 games? First, I'll eat my sock if that many really are available. Secondly... why do I care? I can play PS1 games on a freakin 5 year old Macintosh. Use the PS3 to store my PSP downloads? So the PS3 has a hard drive. OOooooo. Impressive. PDA apps on the PSP? With what input? So far the only console succeeding at all as a PDA is the DS. Same for education.
Sony has very little potential. They're wrapping up all these buzzwords trying to impress us, when in actuality, half the stuff they promise doesn't exist yet, and the other half they'll promise and never deliver. The entire Sony gaming division must be stocked with the same people in charge of Vista. Cramming yesterday's technology into something high priced, and filling it with buzzwords most consumers don't care about. I don't care whether or not I'm paying $600 for 600 buzzwords. It's not new, it's not original, and for the most part, those features don't actually exist. Seriously... a DVR? You're talking about things that require connectors that aren't even on the PS3.
You're talking about the segment of [b]rails developers[/b] within the [b]Mac user's market[b]. All 500 people in that segment must be paying a lot of attention. Not that I think there is anything wrong with Ruby. But this isn't the Mac PHP developer's community we're talking about.
I have used Mac OS X since public beta, and Classic Mac OS before that. I have never heard of Mark Pilgrim, Sam Ruby, or Tim Bray. I don't think they are strong influences on the Mac market. I think, however, they are strong influences on the ego of the Ubuntu crowd, but I can't say they're all that important in the Mac community. If Cabel Sasser, Wil Shipley, or someone who really is important switched to Ubuntu, maybe I'd care a little bit.
I think the people who know who Pilgrim, Ruby, or Bray is, is a very small niche already within a niche.
You really really must not have tried very hard. Re-ordering songs in a playlist in iTunes consists of dragging a song to where you want it on the playlist.
Because we all know that somehow OpenOffice is guaranteed to still be maintained 10 years from now!
Seriously folks. It's a freakin document format. And last I checked, OpenOffice can read Word files anyway. I'm assuming 10 years from now, even if Word does disappear off the face of the Earth, OpenOffice will still read Word files. It's not like Word files are using some ultra secure encryption that only Microsoft will ever be able to decipher.
Actually, they are obliged to check your location before they sell you something. Ever try to buy something from the iTunes Germany store from the USA?
As much as I like Linux (really), do you REALLY think many people buying the PS3 will make use of Linux on it? Shipping units is different then increasing your user base. And a game system isn't going to cause a snowball effect to cause Linux to overtake Windows.
Right, sorry. By nicely, I meant that they wouldn't run exactly speedy, but somewhere I forgot to explicitly mention that. For the price of the console it's better to buy a real i386.
Why would you pay $600 for a sub par Linux box? It's a Cell. It sucks at running software not specifically written for the Cell. A cheap Pentium could probably run circles around it running Linux software. Why would anyone pay a premium for a box that's going to run slow?
But it could only run Cell software. You can't just recompile an application and have it work nicely on the Cell. You have to rewrite the program to make it nicely take advantage of the cells. Even if Sony sold a PS3 running Linux, what would you run on it?
Lol, I suppose it is somewhat ironic, but I don't really want to waste time compiling stuff. I just want a binary package on my system, and I just want it working. When I release software, I don't release code as the primary distribution. I'm assuming my users want to try my software, not spend time compiling it.
I don't think most NIX users get it. I like dumbed down installs and self configuring stuff. That said, I'm a programmer. I like dumbed down installs because I don't like wasting my time configuring everything. At the same time, I don't like installing distros which require me to track down additional software. Why not release a distro which includes a bunch of software and gui configuration tools? I mean, command line utilities are great, but I don't really want to learn them unless it's necessary. I want something that I don't have to learn, or spend much time setting up. I'm sure I might get flamed from the "you should learn how all your software you use works" crowd, but honestly, I don't want to compile, I don't want download libraries, I just want to freakin software to work. I don't want to have to spend time reading man pages, I want to hit buttons. If I decide I want to use the CLI to find tune settings, that's great, but that's not priority to getting some piece of software usable first. Dumbed down shouldn't be minimal learning curve with minimal software. Dumbed down should be minimal learning curve with more software. So far Fedora comes closest to this for me. A lot of common tasks can be done in not very much time with the gui configuration tools.
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I'm sure you know some great programmers, but honestly, they don't know what they're talking about. First, I like OS X because frequently when I have trouble, I can go pull up the source code to Core Foundation and look at the source of the API I'm using. You can't do that with Windows. while Mac OS X's Core Foundation is open source, Windows has no equivalent Open Source code from the OS. Secondly, the Security API allows me to obtain authorization from the user for my application to do anything it. If I wanted, I could use the Security API to get authorization from the user, and then set about destroying the entire operating system. Yes, there are bounds given so that the user can't accidently delete the system folder, but as soon as a Mac OS X application obtains user authorization via the Security API (by the user inputting his/her name and password), the operating system assumes that program is trusted by the user, and at that point, the program can do anything they want.
For your Windows programming friends to say OS X closes off systems, they must have had very little or no Mac programming experience. Apple restricts applications for security reasons, but as soon as an application obtains authorization, all bets are off.
[i]Also I'm not sure how you got OSX 'Tiger' to run a G3, unless you know of a trick I don't know of. I didn't think it would install, nor function properly without the altivec extensions.[/i]
I'm not sure where you got the idea that OS X Tiger requires Altivec. Tiger installs fine on Blue and White Powermac G3's and Firewire Powerbook G3's.
Huh? You can only run code at root level when you use the authentication classes in the security framework. Your code, by default, does not run at root level. I don't know what compelled you to say such an awful thing. If it were true, the security framework and the authentication classes would be awful redundant, wouldn't they?
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When the Zune can play music via WiFi over my Airport Express let me know. Notice Jobs didn't say WiFi wasn't the future, he just said the song sharing was not the future.
I don't think "the iTunes people" really care. But they don't have a choice if they want to sell music. It's all about what the record labels want, not Apple.
Either you're a Sony marketing bot, or this entire post is satire. Multiplayer gaming with a birds eye view from the PSP? Right. Like that's never been done before (Nintendo). Using your PSP as a remote control? How? Why? Who cares? What's wrong with a normal remote control? My media collection streamed to my PSP? Why would I want to stream it to a tiny stream when I'm going to be streaming it in my house with a big TV? PS3 DVR? How is that supposed to work? I haven't seen Cable card or a coax connector on the PS3. Normally a DVR does kinda need one of those. PS3 as a portable WiFi hotspot? Gee that's great, I'll haul around a $600 router with me. VOIP? Because the N-Gage didn't really well. Video calls? Yeah, that's a huge market there. A GPS? Right, because I'm going to take my PSP hiking with me with it's 10 hour battery life. Do I need to buy a solar panel too? 7000 PS1 games? First, I'll eat my sock if that many really are available. Secondly... why do I care? I can play PS1 games on a freakin 5 year old Macintosh. Use the PS3 to store my PSP downloads? So the PS3 has a hard drive. OOooooo. Impressive. PDA apps on the PSP? With what input? So far the only console succeeding at all as a PDA is the DS. Same for education.
Sony has very little potential. They're wrapping up all these buzzwords trying to impress us, when in actuality, half the stuff they promise doesn't exist yet, and the other half they'll promise and never deliver. The entire Sony gaming division must be stocked with the same people in charge of Vista. Cramming yesterday's technology into something high priced, and filling it with buzzwords most consumers don't care about. I don't care whether or not I'm paying $600 for 600 buzzwords. It's not new, it's not original, and for the most part, those features don't actually exist. Seriously... a DVR? You're talking about things that require connectors that aren't even on the PS3.
You're talking about the segment of [b]rails developers[/b] within the [b]Mac user's market[b]. All 500 people in that segment must be paying a lot of attention. Not that I think there is anything wrong with Ruby. But this isn't the Mac PHP developer's community we're talking about.
I have used Mac OS X since public beta, and Classic Mac OS before that. I have never heard of Mark Pilgrim, Sam Ruby, or Tim Bray. I don't think they are strong influences on the Mac market. I think, however, they are strong influences on the ego of the Ubuntu crowd, but I can't say they're all that important in the Mac community. If Cabel Sasser, Wil Shipley, or someone who really is important switched to Ubuntu, maybe I'd care a little bit.
I think the people who know who Pilgrim, Ruby, or Bray is, is a very small niche already within a niche.
You really really must not have tried very hard. Re-ordering songs in a playlist in iTunes consists of dragging a song to where you want it on the playlist.
Because we all know that somehow OpenOffice is guaranteed to still be maintained 10 years from now!
Seriously folks. It's a freakin document format. And last I checked, OpenOffice can read Word files anyway. I'm assuming 10 years from now, even if Word does disappear off the face of the Earth, OpenOffice will still read Word files. It's not like Word files are using some ultra secure encryption that only Microsoft will ever be able to decipher.
Suppose I'll go don my flame proof suit now...
Actually, in my OP I made a mistake. The author is not funded by Exxon Mobile, his source is.
Why Exxon Mobile of course!
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The website he writes for also did a great piece on how McDonalds was good for you, after they took a bunch of cash from McDonalds.
Actually, they are obliged to check your location before they sell you something. Ever try to buy something from the iTunes Germany store from the USA?
Actually, Sony added their own blend of copyright protection on top, so yeah, Sony's copyright protection is worse.
As much as I like Linux (really), do you REALLY think many people buying the PS3 will make use of Linux on it? Shipping units is different then increasing your user base. And a game system isn't going to cause a snowball effect to cause Linux to overtake Windows.
...with OS X trailing a distant third on servers and a closer third on desktops.
I'll give you servers, but if you believe Linux is beating OS X on the desktop, I have waterfront property to sell you in Arizona.
Erm, Mac has Battlefield 1, but no Battlefield 2.
Right, sorry. By nicely, I meant that they wouldn't run exactly speedy, but somewhere I forgot to explicitly mention that. For the price of the console it's better to buy a real i386.
Why would you pay $600 for a sub par Linux box? It's a Cell. It sucks at running software not specifically written for the Cell. A cheap Pentium could probably run circles around it running Linux software. Why would anyone pay a premium for a box that's going to run slow?
But it could only run Cell software. You can't just recompile an application and have it work nicely on the Cell. You have to rewrite the program to make it nicely take advantage of the cells. Even if Sony sold a PS3 running Linux, what would you run on it?
So Sony is going to go after the free software audience with a $600 console? Someone needs to recheck their math...
Lol, I suppose it is somewhat ironic, but I don't really want to waste time compiling stuff. I just want a binary package on my system, and I just want it working. When I release software, I don't release code as the primary distribution. I'm assuming my users want to try my software, not spend time compiling it.
I don't think most NIX users get it. I like dumbed down installs and self configuring stuff. That said, I'm a programmer. I like dumbed down installs because I don't like wasting my time configuring everything. At the same time, I don't like installing distros which require me to track down additional software. Why not release a distro which includes a bunch of software and gui configuration tools? I mean, command line utilities are great, but I don't really want to learn them unless it's necessary. I want something that I don't have to learn, or spend much time setting up. I'm sure I might get flamed from the "you should learn how all your software you use works" crowd, but honestly, I don't want to compile, I don't want download libraries, I just want to freakin software to work. I don't want to have to spend time reading man pages, I want to hit buttons. If I decide I want to use the CLI to find tune settings, that's great, but that's not priority to getting some piece of software usable first. Dumbed down shouldn't be minimal learning curve with minimal software. Dumbed down should be minimal learning curve with more software. So far Fedora comes closest to this for me. A lot of common tasks can be done in not very much time with the gui configuration tools.
I'm sure you know some great programmers, but honestly, they don't know what they're talking about. First, I like OS X because frequently when I have trouble, I can go pull up the source code to Core Foundation and look at the source of the API I'm using. You can't do that with Windows. while Mac OS X's Core Foundation is open source, Windows has no equivalent Open Source code from the OS. Secondly, the Security API allows me to obtain authorization from the user for my application to do anything it. If I wanted, I could use the Security API to get authorization from the user, and then set about destroying the entire operating system. Yes, there are bounds given so that the user can't accidently delete the system folder, but as soon as a Mac OS X application obtains user authorization via the Security API (by the user inputting his/her name and password), the operating system assumes that program is trusted by the user, and at that point, the program can do anything they want.
For your Windows programming friends to say OS X closes off systems, they must have had very little or no Mac programming experience. Apple restricts applications for security reasons, but as soon as an application obtains authorization, all bets are off.
[i]Also I'm not sure how you got OSX 'Tiger' to run a G3, unless you know of a trick I don't know of. I didn't think it would install, nor function properly without the altivec extensions.[/i] I'm not sure where you got the idea that OS X Tiger requires Altivec. Tiger installs fine on Blue and White Powermac G3's and Firewire Powerbook G3's.
Except Intel is launching 64 bit Quad Core in August. Yep, Steve seems to be pretty happy.
OH. You meant OS 9. : slaps self : Well that makes quite a bit more sense. :)
Huh? You can only run code at root level when you use the authentication classes in the security framework. Your code, by default, does not run at root level. I don't know what compelled you to say such an awful thing. If it were true, the security framework and the authentication classes would be awful redundant, wouldn't they?